Genres: Fiction, Sceicen Fiction, Fantasy
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A Blurb About the Book
Lacy
Dawn's father relives the Gulf War, her mother’s teeth are rotting out,
and her best friend is murdered by the meanest daddy on Earth. Life in The
Hollow isn't great. But Lacy has one advantage – she's been befriended by
a semi-organic, semi-robot who works with her to cure her parents. He wants
something in exchange, though. It's up to Lacy Dawn to save the Universe.
Bristling
with intelligent life that has coexisted in harmony for millennia, few people
realize that the Universe is in imminent danger. The government has known about
the threat for hundreds of thousands of years, but kept it a big secret. A
search for a supreme being with powers capable of stopping the threat was begun
thousands of years before and included the genetic manipulation of many species
on many planets, but time is now short.
The
search culminated with a most unlikely candidate to save the Universe. Lacy
Dawn, an eleven year old human is the best hope. She had better get ready. The
evil is much more powerful than any ever before faced, and restoration of order
will involve much more than simply blowing up a few inconsequential planets.
The evil is the spawn of civilization itself and has now crept into every
crevice of Universal Governance, literally.
To
prepare Lacy for her coming task, she is being schooled daily on every known
subject via direct downloads into her brain. Some of these courses tell her how
to apply magic to resolve everyday problems much more pressing to her than a
universe in big trouble, like those at home and at school. She doesn’t
mind saving the universe, but her own family and friends come first.
Once
her demands have been met and her parents have regained a semblance of mental
health, Lacy Dawn assembles her team: her best friend's ghost, annoyingly
pessimistic as always; her formerly mistreated mutt, the only one with enough
empathy skills to communicate directly with the enemy; her now employable
father who has cut way down on drinking beer and has resumed his status as the
best auto trader in the Hollow; a stoner neighbor who is highly skilled in business
transactions and who got so rich from selling marijuana that he moved to the
country because it is better for his Bipolar Disorder; and a mother with
greatly improved self-esteem now that she has new teeth and a G.E.D., except
she has fallen so deeply back in love with her now much healthier husband that
it sometimes blinds her from thinking straight.
With a
great team like that, what could go wrong? It's simple, save the Universe and
Lacy can get back to the sixth grade where life's real challenges are faced by
most kids. But no, entrenched management of any organization, including the
universe, never makes anything that simple. The team must first diagnose the
problem, discover the threat on its own without any help. The android, who now
aspires to achieve humanity so that he can fully feel his growing love for Lacy
Dawn, is not permitted to just tell them what do. He could be deactivated.
Will
Lacy Dawn’s predisposition, education, and magic be enough for her to
save the Universe, Earth, and, most importantly, protect her own family?
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About the Author
Robert Eggleton has served as a children's advocate in an
impoverished state for over forty years. He is best known for his investigative
reports about children’s programs, most of which were published by the West
Virginia Supreme Court where he worked from 1982 through 1997, and which also
included publication of models of serving disadvantaged and homeless children
in the community instead of in large institutions, research into foster care
drift involving children bouncing from one home to the next -- never finding a
permanent loving family, and statistical reports on the occurrence and
correlates of child abuse and delinquency. Today, he is a recently retired
children's psychotherapist from the mental health center in Charleston, West Virginia,
where he specialized in helping victims cope with and overcome physical and
sexual abuse, and other mental health concerns. Rarity from the Hollow is his
debut novel and its release followed publication of three short Lacy Dawn
Adventures in magazines: Wingspan Quarterly, Beyond Centauri, and Atomjack
Science Fiction. Author proceeds have been donated to a child abuse prevention
program operated by Children’s Home Society of West Virginia. http://www.childhswv.org/ Robert continues
to write fiction with new adventures based on a protagonist that is a composite
character of children that he met when delivering group therapy services. The
overall theme of his stories remains victimization to empowerment.
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